PACKING A JEEP WRANGLER full OF HACKS
picking just one image to show off all of the hacks done on this Jeep Wrangler is a difficult order. We chose to choose this customized ceiling console as it features the most work done in a confined area. Give the video walk-around a bit of time before you decide it’s not for you. [Eddie Zarick] …
CLEANING SLIDES WITH PLASMA
[Ben Krasnow] hacked together a method of cleaning sides using plasma. His setup uses a mechanical vacuum pump to evacuate a bell jar. This bell jar is wrapped with a copper coil, which is connected to an RF transmitter. By transmitting RF into the coil, plasma is created inside the bell jar. Plasma cleaning is used …
PAPER ROM
This low-resolution memory gadget packs in just a few bytes of data. however it’s sufficient to spell out [Michael Kohn’s] name. He’s been experimenting with utilizing paper discs for data storage. His method becomes promptly remove when you view the demo video below. The disc spins several times with the sensor arm reading one track. …
HACKED PHONE RUNS ZORK, gets LAMP
A few months ago, [Ulysses] had a job in mind that would run Zork on a TDD. Although it was a bit of a struggle getting the job prepared in time for the Bay area Maker’s Faire, the accompanying develop blog tells us it was much more than worth the effort. After hooking up the …
ELECTRIC SKILLET REFLOW SOLDERING guide
It’s no secret that we’re bizarrely drawn to macro videos showing solder paste during the reflow process. This electric skillet reflow guide supplies the fix we’ve been jonesin’ for while including some valuable ideas for first-timers and veterans alike. Not sure what we’re talking about? look at the grey paste at the top of this image. …
WHAT LIES WITHIN: SMT INDUCTOR TEARDOWN
ever question what’s inside a surface-mount inductor? question no more as you view this SMT inductor teardown video. “Teardown” isn’t truly precise here, at least by the basic of [electronupdate]’s other element teardowns, like his looks inside LED light bulbs and das blinkenlights. “Rubdown” is more like it here, since what starts out as a rather solid looking …
ROBOT LIVES IN YOUR garden and EATS THE WEEDS
You can’t deny the appeal of gardening. Whether it’s a productive patch of vegetables or a flower bed to pleasure the senses, the effort put into gardening is amply rewarded. nobody seems to like the weeding, though — well, almost nobody; I find it quite relaxing. but if you’re not willing to get down and dirty with …
ATLAS HUMANOID ROBOT STANDING ON HIS own
Boston Dynamics likes to show off… which is great since we like to see the frightening looking robots they come up with. This is Atlas, it’s the culmination of their humanoid robotics research. As part of the unveiling video they include a advancement process montage which is rather pleasurable to view. You ought to keep …
HOW-TO: VMWARE player adjustment
last week the totally free VMware player was released. It lets you run online machines, however not produce them. [Faileas] contributed today’s how-to for producing your own online machines. Programs needed to bring out hack: Copy of VMware Player Browser appliance or one more online machine(browser appliance is the smallest one, by size, as well …
THE MONOLITH BRINGS THE boom TO maker FAIRE
[Ross Fish], [Darcy Neal], [Ben Davis], and [Paul Stoffregen] created “the Monolith”, an interactive synth sculpture designed to showcase capabilities of the Teensy 3.6 microcontroller. The Monolith consists of a clear acrylic box covered in LED-lit arcade buttons. The forty buttons in front serve as an 8-step sequencer with five different voices, while touch sensors on the left …